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THB DISPATCH FOUNDED 1*60.
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WHOLE NUMBER 19,025.
RICHMOND, VA., SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1912.
TlIB WRATHER TO-DAY?Fnlr.
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
REPUBLICANS RENOMINATE WILLIAM 11. TAFT FOR PRESDENCY I
WHILE COL. ROOSEVELT IS PLACED AT HEAD OF NEW PARTYi
OFW.J. BRYAN IS
TASK OF LEADERS
Without This, They Fear
Duplication of Chi?
cago Situation.
HIS "QUELCHING"
WILL NOT BE EASY
National Committee Hopes to
Put Him in "'Proper Place, '
Where He Cannot Dominate
Convention or Dictate the
Nominee?Fight to Start
on Judge Parker.
nV SAMUEL Ii. nt.YTIiiS,
{fopyrlght. 1912 ?
[Speclnl t i Tti" Tlmes-Diapstch. J
Baitimor?-. Md., June 2'1.?Th?? first
?rder of business at t!,,- Democratic
National Convention will be -i deter?
mined attempt to
put the soft pedal
on William Jen
nlncf Bryan. To
that end .1 coterie
of handy silencers
.has been selected
and is working
earnestly with the
arriving ni'itiWn
?>f the national
committee The
plot Is to tnke Mr.
Bryan in nand at
the earliest pos?
sible moment and
do what can be
fiamurl (.. Dirt he. done towards
eliminating him
tu a llciator. whl- h position, it Is
claimed hy many, he has assumed, or,
to be more explicit, he la endeavoring
to retain.
11.? fact is Mr Bryan Is ?Uli the
.grrcnien individual force in the Dem?
ocratic party, and the further fact Is
that he knows It full well. Hence.
With no desire to become a secondary
force, and with no Intention of relin?
quishing either position or perquisites,
he has protested against the selection
of Judge Alt"n B Barker as temporary
chairman of the convention which r.icots
next Tuesday.
He-ae-nihlra ( hlragn situation.
The situation has many resemblances
to the situation In Chicago Juat be?
fore the convention met there. Mr.
Roosevelt, whfj also hud dictatorship
Visions, protested against thu selec?
tion Of Senator Blihu Hoot as tempo?
rary chairman. The first tight In mat
convention was on Hoot, but In that
fight Roosevelt and his men mad* their
gr,at,st mistake.
They went to Chicago denouncing
the so-called "theft" of many dele?
gates by the national committee and
claiming they would not abide by any
affirmative decision made by a con?
tention containing those delegates.
Then, after losihK, they abode by
several de, Is oris. Koosevelt's Kie.it
strength was to tie up tho organiza?
tion of that convention, or to bolt
right at the start. He could have tak?
en out his delegates mid claimed to
be as much the Bepulll'Bn party as
the Taft men could be, for he was
Just as regular as Taft while the con?
tention was unorganised. However,
as soon as Root was nominated and
the convention was organised Taft be?
came the regulir Bepuhllcnn and
Boost velt was outside the breast?
works.
Bitter Against Barker.
Now at Baltimore Mr. Bryan Intends
to tight Judge Barker. He protests
violently against the selection of
barker by the subcommittee of too
aiaUtonal eommjilteo on the ground
that f'.irkei Is not a progressive
.Democrat. Mr. Bryan Is entirely right
in that. Mr Parker is as conserva?
tive a Democrat as i'nc party can
boast. Still. Mr. Barker is tho Dem?
ocratic too t for President In
3P04, and Mi Bryan supported him
.end stumped for him. and Mr. Par
'ker was a rlelega te to the conVon
'tior. at Denver, ionr ynrs ng-,, that
^om' -?tod Mr. Brvai. Moreover, Mr. |
? Tp er was a r.ismber o* the platform
c iimlttee, and teloed writ" tho rlnt
1 orm on which Mr. Bryan r.in. Aieo,
'Mr. Parker spoke .id w irked for Mr.
Bryan during the campaign. Thus, the
men who selected Paksr for tempor?
ary chairman n ,11 that If Mr. Bar?
ker was good enougn for U.*yan four
? years ngo and Mght yean n go there
?has been no remarkable change 'n
i Barker that should arouse Mr. Bryan's
t present antipathy. So the Identity of
the candidate to h? sel?.-ted by tho
convention 1.". at this tlmo pushed
into the baekgrouttl by the light
against Bryan's attempt al dictator-j
ehlp. The full national committee
will meet, on Monday ?i ratify the ar?
rangement of the subcommittee.
The most important arrangement Is
the selection of Judgn Parker. If
Judge Tarker stands pat. and does not
withdraw In the Interest of a fictitious
harmony, the national committee will,
In all probability, rntlfc the choice of
the subcommll tee and Judge Barker
Will keynote the occnslon on Tuesday,
fn for Stiff Fight.
The men who seok t*> put thn early
* fConTlniied on Ninth Page.)
I_._S3
FOR NOFOI.K.
BOUBI.R TRACK, STONT3 BALLAST.
DlTPTI.RSS LINK. 7S mlle? without a stop.
C A O. tralp, leavlnft Richmond 12:oo noon
dally. Other Fast Trains leave Richmond
?,8:01 A. M. and 4:00 P. It. Connecti at Nor
;-Solle for Virginia Beach.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
JAMF.S SriIOOI.On.AFT SRBRMAN.
WILSON JOINS BRYAN
IN FIGHT ON PARKER
?-? I
Apparently Trusts His Political
Fortune?' to Commoner's
Guidance.
|NEW IMPETUS TO CLARK BOOM
Speaker Beginning to Find F?vor
With New York
Delegation.
j [Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch. ]
Baltimore. Md., June 12.?The allgn
! mmt of candidates In the convention
! for or against Bryan Is developing fast.
I Last night Speaker i.'h?mp Clark lndl
. rated plainly In nls reply to Bryan's
anti-Parker telegram that he will stand
with the conservatives In the tempo
: rary chairmanship contest. To-night
: Woodrow Wilson. In a telegram rsply
', Ing to Mr. Bryan as to whether or not
, he would join him In the fight against
Parker, takeB his place firmly at Mr.
Bryan's side end apparently trusts his
political fortunes to the Con moner's.
guidance.
The contest on Parker will decile
not only Bryan's Importance In the
1 coming convention, but on it v. Ill ?tand
' Governor Wilson's chance of the nom
I lnation.
I l>r. Wilson's notion, when viewed in
the light of Champ Clark's reply to
Bryan, has greatly strengthened the
impression here that Clark stunde ready
to cast his lot with the conservatives In
: the party. If he haH not already made a
t working agreement with some of them.
I The rumors that Mr. Clark is to receive
j the support of Charles I". Murphy In
return for votes for Parker are regnrfl.
; ed more seriously ns the result of the
day's developments, and the Clark boom
has received n new Impetus.
Will Call for showdown.
The Pcmoer.illc leaders, he.-.ded by
Charles P. Murphy, of Tammany Hall:
I Roger C. Sullivan, of Illinois: Tom Tag
Igart. of Inllann; Norman K. Mack, of
New York, and others, have decided to
stand by their guns nnd call for a show?
down with the Commoner at the open?
ing of the convention. If his beiiggerent
(Continued on Seventh IVu- >
Democratic Convention
In addition to the f ul! Asso
! dated Press Service and Special
! wires, The Times-Dispatch will
I print during the Democratic
National Convention at Balti
? more, special articles by Samuel
G. Blythe, Finley Peter Dunne j
(Mr. Dooley), Alexander For?
ward, political writer for The
Times-Dispatch and Rion Mc
Kissick of the Editorial Staff of
The Times-Dispatch.
i
i .. , . . It
USE HADLEY. THEN
THROW HIM ASIDE
Prediction of Roosevelt Con- |
cerning Nomination of Vice
President Is Borne Out.
(Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.)
Chicago, June 22.?Many of the Re?
publican chieftains hc-rc, who have
i forced President Taft"s rcnomlnatlon
I by tha slender majority of twenty-one
I In the convention were aghast to
1 night when they heard Colonel Roose?
velt and his followers were to assem
! ble Immediately after the convention
J adjourned and place him In nomina?
tion. They wouldn't believe It at first
but finally Senator Penrose said ' let
them go."
Ex-Governor Murphy, of New Jer?
sey, said, "glad of It"
Nicholas Murray Butler. of New
York, remarked "nobody cares a
hang." and se, it went on through thn
line of rtepubllcan chieftains. There
I was n story uppermost among them to
?the effect that If Speaker Champ Clark!
Is not nominated at Baltimore by the
Democrats, Wm. It. Hearst, of Now
Y->rk. Is to Join the Roosevelt move?
ment for a third party,
Immcd!atel> after tho vlce-presl
dentlal ballot. which renominated
Vice-President Sherman, the 344 dole- |
; gates, who were piesent. but refused!
, to vote on both the presidential and
j vlce-presldentlal ballots, moved out l
lot the convention hall and tlre,l nnd
worn as they were by constant bnttittiK
all day proceeded on th>'lr way to
Or hostra Hall, where Colonel Roose?
velt was to address them.
There had been a constant effort all
last night and all to-day on the part I
'of some of the Tuft chieftains to in
iduee Governor lladley, of Missouri, to
accept the vlce-presldentlal nomlna
j tlon. They felt at one time that the
'Governor was favorable to the pro?
position, and th.-y weir, particularly
j delight when the thirty-six Missouri
delegates voted for the platform.
I Hut there was an Immediate chnng?
j In the lladley sentiment after all the;
MlSSOtirlans voted for the platform. I
And It was recalled that In frequent j
consultations with lladley, Colonel
Roosevelt hnd told them "they are
only fooling you. Governor. They won't
nominate you for Vice President.
They'll get ?11 they can out of you. and
when they squeeze you dry they will
(ling you aside."
Colonel Roosevelt's prediction turn?
ed out correct. Immediately after
Governor Hndley and all the Repub?
licans from Missouri had voted for
the. platform, when the remaining 3b8
progressives announced that they
were present hut# refn-?d to vote for
the platform, quick word went
through tho delegations Hint the ma?
jority sentiment was for tho nomina?
tion for Vice-president of Representa?
tive Samuel W. McCall. of the Eighth
District of Massachusetts,
The Taft chieftains hud been In cntt
(Contlnued on Eighth Page.)
BEST SERVICE TO CALIFORNIA.
Rtandird or tourist. Latter prraonally con
lucted without change. Berth 19. Waghlna
ou-Sunm Route, Wf Esst Main Street.
HIGH LIVING COST
NOT DUETOTARIFF
Republicans Reaffirm Their Al?
legiance to System of
Protection.
Chicago, I1L. June 22.?The platform
adopted by the Republican convention
to-day reaffirms tho,belief of tho party
In the protective tariff and declares that
the present high coat of living Is "not
due to the protective tariff system, as
evidenced by the existence of similar
conditions In countries which have a
tariff policy different from our own."
It declares the party's "unchanging
faith in the government of the people,
for the people and by the people." ex?
pressing Its veneration for the iiain.- of
Abraham Lincoln, "whose lofty princi?
ples an i superb devotion to his country
(Continued on Sixth Pago >
COLONEL, DEFEATED,
HEADS NEW PARTY
TAFT BELIEVES I
CRISIS AVERTED!
- I
President Makes Statement on
Result of Republican
Convention.
eshlngton. June II.?President
Taft to-night made the following
statemei.t: \
A national convention of one of the j
' great partleB is ordinarily Important j
I only ;:a a preliminary to a national
campaign for the election of a Presl- j
dent. The convention Just ended is j
much more than this; It is the end of
(Continued on Eighth Page.) j
HOW THE CONVENTION VOTED
-??? B SIDE X T-v ICB-PH BS ID EXT
Alabama ..
Arlxnna. <j
Arknnana. 17
California .... a
< 'olorado. 12
Connecticut ... n
1>< liiMnrc . ,|
t-'InrlilH . II
? icnrgin. -JS
Iilnho . 1
II Hum's. , 2
? ndlnnn. 20
luia . HI
Ivnnana . 2
Kentucky .... 24
I.oiilNlnnn .... 20
Mnlnr .
Mnrj Innd .... I
ManMaetjuaettN.. 20
Michigan . 20
Mlnnruntfi.
MIkn|v>,I|>|i| ... 17
Missouri . in
Mo 11 in nil . H
\obrnakn.
Nrtniln . (t
Hn mpahirn .8
Xcw Jeraey. .
\rn Mexico.., 7
X'eiv Vorli. . . . 7fl
Vorth Carolina, t
Nnrth rtnkotfi.
Ohio . 14
Oklahoma .... 4
Orricoii.
Pfnn?j I vnnln 0
Tthnrtr Iilnnil. . 10
Smith ( nrotlnn 1H
Smith Dnkotn..
TflUI??!!?!, .... 28
Texna . R1
1'lnh . ?
Verfon?. It
Vlrr'"ln . 22
VTnaliln-tnn . . 14
Weal vir*rlnlfi.
Wlarnnaln
WTomfnic. ft
alnaka . 3
TW?. of rolnmhln 2
TfnTrall . 0
Phlltpntn?? ... 9
fort,, nieo.... a
Tofni .Kftl 107 it
Present and not voting, 344.
Abaent. 6
Prom-nt and not voting, .1.18
Abaent. ?i
Nominated for President at
Gathering of Followers in
< Orchestra Hall.
CONVENTION IN AUGUST
One of Cardinal Principles of
11 i^ Organization to Be "Thou
Shalt Not Steal."
Chicago, 111., June 22.?Former Presi?
dent Theodore Roosevelt was nomi?
nated for President on nn tndep. r.dent
ticket to-night In the dying hours of
the Republican National Convention -n
which he had met defeat.
The followers of Colonel Roosevelt
gathered In Orchestra Hall, less than .*
mile from the Coliseum, anil pl?lgeil
their support to the former President.
In accepting the nomination Colonel
Roosevelt appealed to the people of all
sections, regardless of party aiMla
tlons, to stand With the founders of the
new party, one of whose cardinal prin?
ciple.-, he said, was to be ?'Thou .shall
not steal." He said:
"Gentlemen, 1 thank you for your
nomination, and In you I recognize tlte
lawuflly elected delegates to the llepub.
Mean convention, who represent the
overwhelming majority of the- voters
who took part In the Republican pri?
maries prior to the convention and wh<
represent the wish of the majority of
the lawfully elected members of the
Convention I ac-ept the nomination
subject to but one condition. This has
now become a contest which cannot be
settled m.-rely along the ol i patty
lines The principles that are at stalte
are as broad an I as deep as th? founda?
tions of our democracy itself. They
are in no sense sectional.
They should appeal to all honest
citizens, Fast and West. North nnd
South: they should appeal to all right
thinking men whether Republicans'
or Democrats without .ugard to tncir
previous pnrty affiliations, l feel
that the lime has come when not only
all men who believe in progressive
principles, but all men who believe
in those elementary maxima of public
(Continued on Eighth Page.)
The Times-Dispatch
To Be Had at
Baltimore
The Times-Dispatch cai be
found in Baltimore during the
Democratic National Convention
at the following news stands:
Emerson Hotel.
New Howard Hotel.
Rennert Hotel.
Union News Co. No. 2, Union
Station.
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I l?l.l;l>JII.S?PSIIitlSiffji,IIJt I., I ,1
)
VICTORY COMES
FOR PRESIDENT
ON FIRST BALLOT
- )
He Receives Only 561<rf<
the 1,073 Votes in the
Convention.
SHERMAN NAMED j
AS RUNNING MA?E3
Announcement That Taft Had
Won Greeted With Groans and
Hisses?Gathering Adjourna,
While Colonel's Followers
Hasten Away to Give
Him Nomination.
Convention Hall. Chicago, June .
22.?With nearly 350 of the
Roosevelt delegates declining ^to
vote and hastening away at ad?
journment time to tender to Ool-,
onel Theodore Roosevelt the,
nomination of a new party, the
fifteenth Republican National
Convention, after a long and tu?
multuous session, to-night re
nominated William Howard Taft,
of Ohio, for President, and James
Schoolcrat't Sherman, of New
I York, for Vicc-Prcsident.
President Taft received 561 of
the 1,078 votes in the convention,
or twenty-one more than a ma?
jority.
The decision of the Roosevelt
people, under direction of their
leafier, to refrain from voting,
left no other candidate for the
presidency.
The announcement of the Taft
nomination was greeted with
cheering from his adherents and
groans and hisses from the oppo?
sition.
When it became absolutely,
certain early to-day that Mr. Taft
would be nominated without
great difficulty, the leaders in
control of the convention decided
to give him as a running mate
his companion on the ticket In
1908. >
All others dropped from the
race, and Mr. Sherman was--the
only candidate regularly placed
before the convention. A motten
from New Hampshire to make
trie "nomination by acclamation
was declared out of order.
There were many scattering
votes on the roll call that ensued.
Adjourns Amid Confusion.
The convention, amid much
confusion, adjourned sine die at
10:30 o'clock.
At no time was there an Indi?
cation of a walkout of Roosevelt
j delegates. They expressed their
j revolt by silence.
In the confusion just before
adjournment a resolution wna
[adopted giving the national com
jmittce power to declare vacant
! the scat of any many on the com
? mittec refusing to support the
'nominee? of the regular conven?
tion of 1912.
I Sherman'? vte was' 597
The revolt of many Roosevelt
delegate? in the convention was
I open from the moment the per
] manent roll containing the names
;of contested delegate? was ap
I pro\ erl.
j A "valedictory statement" was
' road in behalf of Colonel Roose?
velt, asking that his name be not
j presented, and that hi? delegates
j sit in mute protest against all
(Continued on"r*?wr? 4. Section JB)
LOW FAKES TO HALTIMORK.
VI? York River Lina, account Damoeratle
National Conv?Dtlon. A delightful water trip
to and Irom the Convention City. Tioketa
and Btatsro?io? at City Office, ?07 B. Uaia
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